Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 84

The entire coast was strewn with spoiled herrings, for there were so many of these fish that a net was scarcely thrown into the sea before it was filled.

Who acts: many · What happens: strew, be, throw, fill · To what, where: entire coast, net, sea

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:11004): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coast	det
2	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coast	amod
3	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strewn	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strewn	aux:pass
5	strewn	strew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 herrings	case
7	spoiled	spoiled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 herrings	amod
8	herrings	herring	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 strewn	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 were	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 were	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strewn	advcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 were	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 fish	case
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 fish	det
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 many	nmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 thrown	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 net	det
20	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thrown	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thrown	aux:pass
22	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	23 thrown	advmod
23	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 many	advcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thrown	obl
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 filled	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 filled	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 filled	aux:pass
30	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 thrown	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 strewn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strew	past · passive		the entire coast		with spoiled herrings	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with herring=Theme
2	be	past	many of this fish		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw	past · passive		a net		into the sea result; scarcely property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into sea=Result
4	fill	past · passive		net			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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